Towanwroath Shaft engine house, now ruinous but once housing a Cornish beam engine used to pump water from Wheal Coates mine on the cliffs near St Agnes

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Towanwroath Shaft engine house, now ruinous but once housing a Cornish beam engine used to pump water from Wheal Coates mine on the cliffs near St Agnes. Tin and copper mining were once major industries in Cornwall.